April 5, 2017
Chapters 7-8
Facilitated by Phil Hutchings, Black Alliance for Just Immigration
The following materials were offered to participants after the class to supplement the group discussion. Video of this session is below.
In his powerful presentation to the Reading Black Reconstruction study group, Phil Hutchings mentioned two books that he thought were good complements to Black Reconstruction.Read More »

March 23, 2017
Chapters 1-6
Facilitated by Paula Austin, Assistant Professor of History, Sacramento State University
The following materials were offered to participants after the class to supplement the group discussion. Video of this session is below.
Capitalism (here’s a definition we’ve found useful to think about in relationship to what was offered during the session):
Capitalism is an economic system in which a small number of people maintain ownership and control of the machines, raw materials, people’s labor, and land needed to make goods (means of production) and the means of distributing and generating profit from those goods.Read More »

By Rachel Herzing and Isaac Ontiveros
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“History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history.”
James Baldwin (“Black English: A Dishonest Argument”, 1980, as quoted in I Am Not Your Negro)
Raoul Peck’s filmmaking approach in I Am Not Your Negro, affords us the opportunity to reacquaint ourselves with the dynamism of James Baldwin’s thinking.Read More »